It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, ...
It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance. The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a political difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War. Three years ago Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya, and in particular about the series of bomb attacks on Russian territory that led to the seizure of power by Vladimir Putin. According to Litvinenko those attacks were the work of the secret service. After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow. Marina Litvinenko is writing a book about her husband. The book will be published in May 2007 and the film rights have already been sold to Columbia Pictures. In this unique interview, she speaks about how they first met, how they fled to England and she speaks about Aleksander´s death agony. We also see Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko.
The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.
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Russia has to be the most "openly" corrupted government of all... And still is. People in Russia still dont have any freedom. Everything is owned by the Government. You cant see any "private houses" in the country side, becasue people own nothing! The villiages are dying and people flee from them to the citys. An American villiage or town compared to Russian is like night and day.
All Governments are corrupt it is all part of the job, it is just some are more corrupt than others. The USA is of course the most corrupt and has committed the most serious terrorist attracts as we all know.
"USA is of course the most corrupt " - look who's talking - Russian ! I spent there 20 yearsof my life and Russia is mother of all corruption and murder - You love tight ass rulers .that sending people to Cyberia and killing millions - You just like being slaves...... That's the corner stone of 'misterious" Russian (drunk) soul .....
hmm, a chechen terrorist leader living under protection in london and is close friends with the father of litvinenko and he even gives interviews what a fucking joke, imagine what would happen if osama was living in moscow and gave interviews on russian tv, I dont see what britain is trying to do here except piss russia off as much as possible
The russian security apparatus, FSB and all various government bodies are all fucking dodgy. Make you suspicious of russians. That's their mentality. They bomb appartment blocks in russian cities as a false flag to retaliate and invade Chechnya. Dodgy fucking russians.
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